Yes us! We had photo therapy at day 4 and then HV (Health Visitor) referred us back at her 2 week check cuz he was still yellow. We went back to hospital for a blood test day 16 but he was fine thankfully. It just takes time for it all to leave their system.

Yes.. he's exclusively breastfed. Health visitor mentioned I may have to start giving formula?! Which I'm not happy about. She mentioned breast milk doesn't flush the bili out of their system fast enough. Poor thing looks like a glow worm! They didn't seem too concerned as his weight is piling on and he has 10+ wet and dirty nappies a day. He's very sleepy though. Eats then sleeps. X

Yes us! We had photo therapy at day 4 and then HV referred us back at her 2...

Posted
29/04/2018

Yes us! We had photo therapy at day 4 and then HV referred us back at her 2 week check cuz he was still yellow. We went back to hospital for a blood test day 16 but he was fine thankfully. It just takes time for it all to leave their system.

May I ask how they do blood test? I'm anxious at just the thought? Their veins are sooooo teeny x

Yes.. he's exclusively breastfed. Health visitor mentioned I may have to ...

Posted
29/04/2018

Yes.. he's exclusively breastfed. Health visitor mentioned I may have to start giving formula?! Which I'm not happy about. She mentioned breast milk doesn't flush the bili out of their system fast enough. Poor thing looks like a glow worm! They didn't seem too concerned as his weight is piling on and he has 10+ wet and dirty nappies a day. He's very sleepy though. Eats then sleeps. X

Google breastfed baby jaundice. My friend is a bf peer support worker and told me the guidelines all are based around ff babies - they should get rid of it quickly so it is worrying if they have it long term. Bf babies can have breastfeeding jaundice for 6+ weeks or even months.

Dr Jack Newman is a bf expert he has a great article saying so long as baby alert when awake, feeding lots and dirty wet nappies it's ok. I refused to put my baby through blood tests. His is 95% gone now at 4.5 weeks x

May I ask how they do blood test? I'm anxious at just the thought? Their ...

Posted
29/04/2018

May I ask how they do blood test? I'm anxious at just the thought? Their veins are sooooo teeny x

The blood test our had was just like the ones with have with needle and vein, they can also do the one like the heel prick test which gives results straight away but the machine was rebooting when we were there.

Tiny tiny needle though.

They have me a little sugar water in a squeeze tube to give her when she cried and it worked like a charm.

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